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ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – The Oilers have just come off a day of dating in beautiful British Columbia and are looking to see if the added camaraderie turns into chemistry in the long run.
“I thought yesterday was a very good day for us. We had the chance to spend some time together in a beautiful province, a beautiful part of the world,” said Head Coach Jay Woodcroft. “It was fantastic to get out and enjoy the scenery. The weather was great, the company, the food and the experience will stay with them for a long time.”
The Oilers players were off on Tuesday to fish and shoot clay pigeons as team building exercises. The rigors of the camp and unfamiliarity with a new roster can be exhausting, but the emphasis on team building prior to a long stay at Rogers Place was vital to Woodcroft.
“You’ve heard me say this before. I think the best form of team bonding is when you win together. For me, the way our schedule has been set up this season with the first six regular season games at home and nine for the first 12 at home, we wanted to have the feel of a road race in early October,” Woodcroft said. “That’s why we made the decision that we have taken.”
The first chance to test their new bonds will be later tonight against the Canucks team they defeated 7-2 on Monday at Rogers Place. However, it is expected that Vancouver will have a very different lineup than the inexperienced group that took on the Oilers top stars.
“It was a great day yesterday, but today is race day and everyone is on it,” said Woodcrofat. “We want to move the needle as we progress through training camp. We want to make sure we get better and see that day-to-day improvement that we want from day one.”
POLISHED PROCESS
One area where Woodcroft would like to see more improvement is the gloss of the Oilers game. The preseason is the time to iron out the kinks that creep in during a low season. It’s nearly impossible for players to recreate a game situation while training in the summer, and it can take a while to get the proverbial rust off. However, that doesn’t mean there haven’t been parts of the Oilers game that Woodcroft liked so far.
“I would like to see us play a faster game. I guess that’s normal when you’re working your way through a training camp. We’ve seen a lot of good stuff so far, but I’d like us to play with a little bit more tempo and a little bit more shine in certain parts of our game, but we’ve made really good efforts from every line so far’, said Woodcroft. “Now it’s about polishing everything professionally as we work through the last two games of the preseason.”
That shine can come from different aspects of the game. Whether it’s seeing how a game develops in advance, or just taking the shape of the game to get to the right spots. The Oilers have only two exhibition games to go before results move from process to results, so tonight’s game will be an important indicator of how close the team is to the regular season.
“It comes down to the pace between your ears and understanding where to make the next game and skating and supporting certain areas of the ice,” Woodcroft said. Sometimes it comes down to your feet, and sometimes it comes down to how fast you move the puck. Today we want to make a step forward in all three areas.”
STUEY BEGINS
Fresh from a sparkling performance in Winnipeg on Saturday, Stuart Skinner gets another chance to build out his strong preseason before going into the regular season as Jack Campbellbackup.
The 23-year-old sidelined 33 of 35 shots against the Jets and was perfect in the shootout in the Oilers’ eventual 3-2 win. The performance was just another in a long line of solid outings that have shown the growth of local produce since being drafted into the third round in 2017.
‘I have watched a young man grow up. I’ve seen a goalkeeper get better. I have seen a professional gain experience. I’ve seen him at every stage of his development process and he’s someone I think is energized by the opportunities ahead,” Woodcroft said of the netminders development curve. “He knows it’s an important year for him personally and an important year for us as a team together. I think he is ready to make an impact.”
So far this preseason, Skinner has an excellent save rate of .942, having missed 66 of 70 shots in parts of three exhibition games.
LINES OF MORNING SKATE
The Oilers skated in Abbotsford this morning for tonight’s 8:00 p.m. MT game against the Canucks. It looks like Dylan Holloway will get another shot in the top six after a hat-trick outing on Monday against the same team he will be taking on tonight. The rookie skated on par with Leon Draisaitl and Zach Hyman on Monday, but tonight he’ll get a chance to line up next to the other Oilers elite center Connor McDavid.
Jesse Puljujarvic retires from the lineup after being rested from Saturday’s game in Winnipeg, while Tyson Barrie is taking a break after a demanding preseason schedule in which the veteran has been asked to show several young Oilers defenders the ropes. Here’s what the rest of the rules looked like this morning, with tonight’s protential lineup probably very similar.
Holloway – McDavid – HymanCoast – Nugent-Hopkins – PuljujarvicJanmark – McLeod – Ryan
Hamblin – Malone – Virtanen
Nurse – CeciKulak – BouchardBroberg – Murray
Niemelainen – Demers
Skinner
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— Michael Arcuri, EdmontonOilers.com
OILERS at CANUCKS
Scope of the Oilers team
Dylan Holloway highlighted Monday night’s Edmonton’s 7-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Place with a hat-trick and an assist to boost his pre-season tally to six points (four goals, two assists) in four games.
“I just wanted to play well. I wanted to play my game,” Holloway said. “I knew I had to do something to make the team. I’m just happy with the way things are going, but there are more games to come.”
Losing in the ‘Hollywood’ lights was a stellar performance of 28 saves from Jack Campbell and a goal and two assists for Zach Hyman, who played right-of-way with Holloway and Leon Draisaitl.
“I’m very, very happy with what we’ve seen from him,” Draisaitl said after the match the child who attracts attention on Camp. “It’s just his sense of hockey, which actually comes from his work ethic. It allows him to get into good situations and be on the line. It gives itself an extra second to make a game, which of course is great if you want to succeed offensively in this competition. I am very, very impressed so far.”
Warren Foegele found the back of the net twice in the final three minutes, with the Oilers scoring three goals in quick succession, including Holloway’s hat-trick goal that kicked off Edmonton’s late wave.
The Oilers traveled directly to Abbotsford, BC after Monday’s game to participate in off-ice team building activities for Wednesday’s penultimate game.
Canucks Team Scope
Chances are you can expect the Canucks to return to the Oilers on Wednesday night with a tougher and more formidable lineup at home.
It’s not the home of Rogers Arena, but the Canucks will try to rectify their five-goal defeat on Monday at the home of their AHL affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks, with the potential for the likes of Elias Petterson, captain Bo Horvat and Russian Free. agent signing Andrei Kuzmenko to be in the lineup.
Vancouver is so far winless in the preseason for five games (0-4-1), including two consecutive defeats to the Seattle Kraken and split-squad defeats to the Calgary Flames before Monday’s result fell to Edmonton. On Tuesday, the Canucks reduced their roster by 13 to a total of 29 players the following day.
The Canucks have just two netminders in their expected tandem of Thatcher Demko and Spencer Martin in camp, meaning the Oilers are expected to face stiff competition between the pipes after knocking seven past Collin Delia and Arturs Silovs on Monday. .
— Jamie Umbach, EdmontonOilers.com
